Using TermRecord for recording terminal sessions

I recently used TermRecord & found it to be an awesome lightweight & fast tool for terminal recording.The installation was fairly simple. TermRecord is a program that wraps the script command. It automatically detects your terminal size, records your session, and stores the output as either JSON, embeddable JavaScript, or a static HTML file. The HTML is completely self-contained, embedding all necessary dependencies in one file and can be shipped to anyone that has a modern browser.

You can store these files as your own notes or use them as instructional examples, or whatever you want! 

I downloaded the source code from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/TermRecord.

I extracted the source code:

[root@cserver ~]# cd TermRecord-1.2.4/
[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# ls
bin  MANIFEST.in  PKG-INFO  setup.cfg  setup.py  termrecord  TermRecord.egg-info

Then I ran setup.py to install the package:

[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# python setup.py install

running install

running bdist_egg

running egg_info

writing requirements to TermRecord.egg-info/requires.txt

writing TermRecord.egg-info/PKG-INFO

writing top-level names to TermRecord.egg-info/top_level.txt

writing dependency_links to TermRecord.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

reading manifest file 'TermRecord.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'

writing manifest file 'TermRecord.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg

running install_lib

running build_py

creating build

creating build/lib

creating build/lib/termrecord

copying termrecord/__init__.py -> build/lib/termrecord

creating build/lib/termrecord/templates

copying termrecord/templates/dynamic.jinja2 -> build/lib/termrecord/templates

copying termrecord/templates/base.jinja2 -> build/lib/termrecord/templates

copying termrecord/templates/static.jinja2 -> build/lib/termrecord/templates

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord

copying build/lib/termrecord/__init__.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord/templates

copying build/lib/termrecord/templates/dynamic.jinja2 -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord/templates

copying build/lib/termrecord/templates/base.jinja2 -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord/templates

copying build/lib/termrecord/templates/static.jinja2 -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord/templates

byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/termrecord/__init__.py to __init__.pyc

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

installing scripts to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO/scripts

running install_scripts

running build_scripts

creating build/scripts-2.7

copying and adjusting bin/TermRecord -> build/scripts-2.7

changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/TermRecord from 644 to 755

creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO/scripts

copying build/scripts-2.7/TermRecord -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO/scripts

changing mode of build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/TermRecord to 755

copying TermRecord.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

copying TermRecord.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

copying TermRecord.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

copying TermRecord.egg-info/requires.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

copying TermRecord.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO

zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...

termrecord.__init__: module references __file__

creating dist

creating 'dist/TermRecord-1.2.4-py2.7.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it

removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)

Processing TermRecord-1.2.4-py2.7.egg

creating /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/TermRecord-1.2.4-py2.7.egg

Extracting TermRecord-1.2.4-py2.7.egg to /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Adding TermRecord 1.2.4 to easy-install.pth file

Installing TermRecord script to /usr/bin

Installed /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/TermRecord-1.2.4-py2.7.egg

Processing dependencies for TermRecord==1.2.4

Searching for Jinja2==2.7.2

Best match: Jinja2 2.7.2

Adding Jinja2 2.7.2 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Searching for MarkupSafe==0.11

Best match: MarkupSafe 0.11

Adding MarkupSafe 0.11 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages

Finished processing dependencies for TermRecord==1.2.4

The TermRecord binary was copied to /usr/bin.

Using TermRecord is fairly simple. Just specify the TermRecord command followed by -o & path to the output html file. Run the commands you'd like to record & type exit.

[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# TermRecord -o /tmp/test.html

Script started, file is /tmp/tmp4C9Aj3

[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# echo "This is strictly a test"

This is strictly a test

[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# echo "testing to see if TermRecord works!!"

echo "testing to see if TermRecord worksecho "This is strictly a test""

testing to see if TermRecord worksecho This is strictly a test

[root@cserver TermRecord-1.2.4]# exit

exit

Script done, file is /tmp/tmp4C9Aj3